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Analyze the question The sentence uses the idiom "pass for", meaning to be accepted or mistaken as something, usually because of appearance or behaviour. You are asked to choose the option that best explains this meaning.

Explain the concept "Pass for" means to be accepted as or taken to be someone or something.

• "He could pass for a native speaker" means people would accept him as a native speaker.
• "Would" here expresses a likelihood or hypothetical: if she were seen, people would accept her as such.

Be careful not to confuse it with the literal verb "pass" (walk past, hand over, succeed in an exam).

Step-by-step solution

• Option A: "She would be accepted by all as a beauty queen." This matches the idiom, because she looks so beautiful that she would be accepted as a beauty queen. ✔
• Option B: "She walked past the beauty queen." This takes "pass" literally as moving by, which is wrong. ✘
• Option C: "She was acting as a beauty queen." This suggests pretence or role-play, but the sentence is about how she appears to others, not about acting. ✘
• Option D: "She would pass the drink to the queen..." This is a literal, unrelated meaning of "pass". ✘

Answer: Option A.

Exam tip When you see "pass for" in JAMB idiom questions, think "be accepted as" or "be mistaken for". Eliminate options that use the literal sense of "pass" (walk past, hand over, succeed in an exam).